Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801472512 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stephen Hopgood isProfessor of International Relations, SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International and The Endtimes of Human Rights, both from Cornell, and American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State.
J. Cockrell said Most complete book on AI. This is really the only book out there that explains Amnesty International in a complete and unbiased way. The author was allowed unprecedented access to the archives and inner-workings of AI which provided him with all kinds of interesting and unexpected information. The author was very clear about his personal opinions on the group and how they changed throughout his exp
Amnesty has been the light, and that light was truthbearing witness to suffering hidden from the eyes of the world."from Keepers of the FlameThe first in-depth look at working life inside a major human rights organization, Keepers of the Flame charts the history of Amnesty International and the development of its nerve center, the International Secretariat, over forty-five years. Through interviews with staff members, archival research, and unprecedented access to Amnesty International's internal meetings, Stephen Hopgood provides an engrossing and enlightening account of day-to-day operations within the organization, larger decisions about the nature of its mission, and struggles ove
This is an interesting, ambitious, and lucid critique of the International Secretariat."Choice "This is a remarkable book. How can AI govern itself, and on what basis does it make choices about its campaigns? How distant is the initial focus on Prisoners of Conscience from the statement that Guantanamo would be the gulag of our time? Throughout the narrative, Stephen Hopgood never lets the reader off the hook, presenting to us the strongest possible arguments for all sides of impossible choices so that by the book's end we are with him in trying to think through our own morality in the face of the quandaries he has opened up for us."Margaret Keck, The Johns Hop